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> And, of course, nobody has known to opt-out by blocking AppleBot-Extended until after the announcement where they've already pirated shittons of data. It’s n
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> And, of course, nobody has known to opt-out by blocking AppleBot-Extended until after the announcement where they've already pirated shittons of data.
It’s not as bad as that, I think. https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829 https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829: “Applebot-Extended is only used to determine how to use the data crawled by the Applebot user agent.“
⇒ if you use robots.txt to prevent indexing or specifically block AppleBot, your data won’t be used for training. AppleBot is almost a decade old (https://searchengineland.com/apple-confirms-their-web-crawler-applebot-220423 https://searchengineland.com/apple-confirms-their-web-crawle...)
Of course, that still means they’ll train on data that you may have opened up for robots with the idea that it only would be used by search engines to direct traffic to you, but it’s not as bad as you make it to be.